New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-27
TILE IRON.CLAD OATH.

TINE WHEN TIE DUELLIsT COULD NOT BE ELECTED
SOME INTERESTING FACTS.
trPoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE OF me TEIHCNEn
ALBANY March 25O One of the bills in the Legislature
providing or Constitutional Convention says that 10
person shall lie permitted vote for delegates to The
convention unless they shall take this oath:
a. p do soiemnly swear cor arml That have ncD ef
ESTe See GiS thereof sAs a have given
aid. cOun nance. counsel or encouag mem 70 persons en-
nor accepIed nor attempted 10 exercise any
9hSe wseHeT aTaei any sutGoX 81 Pie ay b
voluntary support TO any pretended gGveInmen
nmics thereto and dd not wliuY desert from TIE mil.
TO avoid the drait during the late Rebellion.
Deputy Secretary of State Willers, who was strong
Union man during the of the Rebellion said few
days ago. This ronclad oath cannot be exaced Of the
Constitutional Convention voters. IL was so exacted in
1867 when the convention OF that elected huf
since then the have decided that no mans vote can
be refused citizen OF the State and that such an
oath cannot imposed For many years, in fact lceis
Iaton and the Constitution have been lessening the num-
her of oahs that men have take 20 vote to assume
office. Why, 10 man could he admitted 10 the Leg
Isature VINO had fought duel or who would not make
oath that ne had not fought Mydert VI. box, who
was elected an Assemblyman from seneca County IN
1917, refused admission to the Legislature OF ISIS
because he would take this durling oath was look
ing over The journals of the Legislature OF SIS the other
day, and came upon the record OF tDls c"se. ne
Secretary of states book containing the signatures OF me
members OF the Legislature since the formation OF me
Government shows that Senators and AsSenbymen Tor
two three years took this oath. Let me show YOU
Mr. Nlllcrs went 10 the document room
turned with a large volume. When he opened 1t THE
TRIBUNE correspondent that its leaves were OF
parcment and that written upOu them were Inc sigma
ures of former members OF the Legislature, some or
them hardly disceluible from the IalntnesS OF Inc
fink. One of the pages bore tne sigma
ires of the Senators and Assenblymen OF 1918. The
Legislature 1916 lad passed severe act against duel
ling prescribing hat every menbcreect OF succeeding
Legislatures should take oath that they had not fought
a duel and therefore this oath written on the Secie
ary OF book Not only did the act OF lslG apply
TO members Of the Legislature but also to every person
In the state who might be appointed 10 oihce cNI
military and TO lawyers The Legislature OF ISIS also
had among members who could distinctly fcneI
Der the war l776 against King George Ill OF ESldnd
There was an oath also be taken by member O the
Legislature in regard King George. The two oaths TO
be taken, aud which still inscribed on the books OF the
Secretary of State followed by the signatures OF the sen
atOTs and AsseIDblymen. are given below:
do solemny any mental reservation or equvoca
ton declare that renOnhce and azure All aegl-
ana fidelity TO every f0eisI prince pO'.htSe s'a Oh
sovereignty whatever, and hat Will bear Ia ana true
allegiance the State OF New York as free and ndeen ent
State
a.
y do soiemiy swear Tor that been engaged
I'm by accepting challenge To night ducl
OF by hghing duel other manner Ill violation "i
The act entitled An suppress due since the ist
july the OF our lOIi I-lo nor VIII lie 80 con
indirectly during the
once of while iDhabant oil tlis state.
The same year. 1913, Joseph {. Yates. who Gov
ernor the III 1922 took the following remarkaDe
Oath
Joseph C. Yates do sOemnly that Will well and
faithfully execute the trust repOsed III me as one OF te
managers the lotteries for the OF literature
and purposes established by law without FAVOR or
partiaity and that will not directly or indirectly authorize
or permit ticgets such lottery III which
sale OF person at instance or Oh my behalf
shall directly Indirectly bcnchtod or Interested OI ell
titled TO any profit or advantage whatever theieOn